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Wilhelm Brasse was forced to take
photographs of frightened children and victims of gruesome medical
experiments moments from their death at the extermination camp where
some 1.5million people, mostly Jewish died in the Holocaust.
Mr
Brasse, who died this week aged 94, has had relive those horrors from
inside Auschwitz but is considered a hero after he risked his life to
preserve the harrowing photographs, which later helped convict the very
Nazi monsters who commissioned the photographs. (Read entire article.)
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